Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Bass
  • Drums

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Door
  • Foot

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Universe

• I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fashion
  • Beauty
  • New York

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Thought

• A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Women

• I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• We have to ask the tough questions.

  

  Megyn Kelly

• In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Today
  • Spiritual
  • Realizing

• The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Nature
  • Canvas